I believe the last post was about our first vacation to Cuba.
So the next step is when we bought our first house (which we still live in).
We decided that living in the tiny house was great but things were getting crowded and we were ready to own. The timing was not great because the Cuba trip was planned but we decided it could take a while to find a place and it couldn't hurt to start looking. So we got in touch with a realtor and started looking at homes. Too big, too small, dump, messy, ugly, needs too much work.
One day at work I get a call from the realtor, he says "Listen, a house just went on the market last night and I would like to show it to you and D."
Wonderful. SO we went to look that afternoon. As soon as we opened the door a wonderful aroma hit us in the face. You could tell that this was a clean home. Not a home that was cleaned because it was for sale but a home that was always clean.
We instantly fell in love with the openess of the upstairs. Problem? The ceiling in the basement was a bit low and it didn't have the big rec room that we wanted. But there was a nice backyard that led only to bush and had a nice big garage. PLus the neighborhood was a very nice neighborhood.
We decided to put in an offer. They counter offered us within our price range and we accepted! We decided to make the closing date for 2 months after we returned from Cuba.
Finally the day came for us to move in. It was so exciting, we had lots of help from our family and friends and we got all of our things moved in pretty quickly.
Since we have moved in we have done many renovations that make the house more our style and more like a home to us. We redid the basement to make the rec room that we always wanted, we put new siding up, we redid our bedroom, we built new cupboard doors for the kitchen and most recently we redid the bathroom downstairs.
I am not sure if this is our forever home but I do know that we have made tons of memories here and I love that my first owned home was with D.
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